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...which governs the legal framework for activities in space. Best known for banning governments from putting nuclear weapons into orbit, the treaty also requires space-faring nations to avoid "harmful contamination" of other worlds while exploring the solar system. Human beings have yet to set foot on other planets, so the risk today comes from bacteria that can hitch a ride on unmanned spacecraft like NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander, which arrived on the red planet's surface last May. (See pictures of the Mars Rover's five years in space...
...structure of the spacecraft from the harsh Martian UV radiation could stay alive, in dormancy, for hundreds of thousands of years. And if native microbes do exist on Mars - nothing has been found yet, but scientists hold out hope that the ice present on parts of the planet harbors life - there's a risk that foreign bacteria could contaminate or somehow change the development of their Martian counterparts. But beyond the broad language of the Outer Space Treaty, we don't really have set guidelines for how we should treat microbial life on another planet should we run across...
...There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet." - Defending Libya's Jamahiriya system in a conference at Columbia University in New York City on March...
...Safeway executive who took over Jamba eight weeks ago: "From a historical perspective, that may be exactly right. But the current management team on the field, with its deep CPG [consumer products goods] experience, knows how to do this work. We've worked on the best brands on the planet. We're very confident we know what to do to turn around the company." White scoffs at talk that Jamba is on the ropes. (See the top 10 food trends...
...where you want to go, both professionally and personally. But don't be so sure success is the answer, he cautions: "If money, power and fame were the magic bullet in life, then Elvis Presley would've been the most deliriously happy, contented person on the planet...